David Hare (dramatist)

Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright and stage director who has also worked as a screenwriter and film director, winning a BAFTA TV Award for Licking Hitler (1979) and being nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

Quotes

 * The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
 * "The Playwright as Historian", The Sunday Times Magazine (26 November 1978.
 * The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
 * A Map of the World (1982), cited from Carol Homden, The Plays of David Hare (1995), p. 124.

Misattributed

 * A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides – when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) pp. 209–10.
 * Children always turn toward the light.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
 * In oratory the will must predominate.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 97.
 * None but a fool is always right.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 445.
 * Nothing is further than Earth from Heaven: nothing is nearer than Heaven to Earth.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 563.
 * Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 143.
 * Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of Nature.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 296.
 * Purity is the feminine, Truth the masculine, of Honour.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 180.
 * Smiles are the language of love.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 249.
 * Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, and yet both actively working together.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.
 * Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 526.
 * The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 1.
 * The ultimate tendency of civilization is toward barbarism.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 459.
 * Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 159.
 * To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.
 * Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 7.